NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WDRB) — A brand new meal prep service and restaurant celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting Wednesday in New Albany.
Ready Set Prep’d presents contemporary, wholesome meals which are able to seize and go. It began as a passion within the chef’s kitchen, then changed into a check run at a kitchen incubator and is now settling in to its first brick and mortar location at 1222 State St.
“We simply attempt to maintain issues contemporary and wholesome, and we make every thing from scratch,” chef and proprietor Peggy Garbe stated.
The menu lists lunch choices like salads, wraps and protein bowls. Garbe stated the jerk hen bowl is the best-seller to this point. You’ll be able to order upfront and choose it up, or you possibly can pop contained in the store or use the drive-thru.
Nevertheless, the meat and potatoes of the enterprise that bought every thing began is the meal prep service. Prepared Set Prep’d presents a rotating weekly menu that you would be able to order a number of meals upfront and choose up in your week.
“So we’re making ready-to-eat wholesome meals for those who simply don’t have time to cook dinner, don’t need to cook dinner or don’t know the way to cook dinner,” Garbe stated.
Many of the meals may be modified for gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, vegetarian and vegan diets. The meals are wholesome, however they’re not missing taste. Garbe is classically educated and labored in a number of native high-quality eating eating places earlier than beginning her personal enterprise.
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“We simply do wholesome meals in a extra elevated method,” Garbe stated. “So we’re not simply providing you with hen and broccoli in a field. We’re providing you with steak panzanella salad.”
Garbe stated she and her husband by no means anticipated they’d be busines- house owners. He stated when she gave start to their daughter, she wanted to discover a new stability between working as a chef and her household. And it’s been a course of to get up to now. A couple of years in the past, she began sharing footage on social media of the meals she was making ready at house. Garbe stated mates began commenting that they’d pay her to make meals for them. So it began as a passion in her spare time.
“It simply type of snowballed from doing it on the aspect and on the weekends after my 9-5 job,” he stated. “And other people would simply maintain telling their mates. And I am like, ‘I can not make any extra meals out of my home!’ After which that is type of once we fell upon Mesa.”
For the final two years, Garbe was testing her idea and getting the balls rolling out of MESA, a collaborative kitchen incubator. She stated the enterprise actually began to take off in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, when individuals had been looking for extra ready-to-go and contactless meal choices.
This new location permits the small enterprise to broaden and make tons of of meals day by day.
“I by no means thought in 1,000,000 years we might personal a enterprise, nevertheless it simply type of fell into our laps,” Garbe stated. “And we need to thank everybody for the assist. We’re glad to supply one thing new and a wholesome choice for anyone.”
Readily available for the ribbon-cutting celebration had been a number of native and state officers to welcome the enterprise to the group.
“We’re going to numerous these ribbon-cuttings not too long ago as increasingly more companies are getting began,” U.S. Congressman Trey Hollingsworth stated. “And I feel that’s an important signal for our financial system.”
Prepared Set Prep’d is open Wednesday by means of Sunday. Customers can also make orders online.
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